Live Auction 21950Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Lot 22 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION

DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)

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Closed18 October 2023

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GBP 151,200

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DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (1903-1975)
Preparation
signed and dated 'Barbara Hepworth/1949' (lower right), signed and dated again and inscribed 'Barbara Hepworth/1949/'Preparation'' (on the reverse)
oil and pencil on gesso-prepared board
14 ½ x 20 ½ in. (36.8 x 52.1 cm.)
Painted in 1949.
This work is recorded as D 211.

Presented by the artist for sale in aid of the London Library; Christie's, London, 22 June 1960, lot 2.
with Piccadilly Gallery, London, where purchased by Sir Peter Wakefield, K.B.E., C.M.G.
with Michael Wright, Gloucestershire, where purchased by Simon Hilton in 1998.
with Michael Wright, Gloucestershire, where purchased by the present owner in October 2001.

Specialist note

We are very grateful to Dr Sophie Bowness and Jenna Lundin Aral for their assistance with the cataloguing apparatus for this work. Dr Sophie Bowness and Jenna Lundin Aral are preparing the revised catalogue raisonné of Hepworth’s paintings.